
A$AP Rocky revealed in an interview with Choice that he auditioned for the operate of Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. “My audition was trash. I was trash that day,” he recalled, sooner than saying Donald Glover — who acquired the half — “was a method greater Lando than I would’ve supplied in the mean time. And I imagine he appeared considerably additional like [OG Lando Billy Dee Williams] than me.”
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Lucy Hale revealed all through BuzzFeed’s Pet Interview that she auditioned for the lead operate in Hannah Montana, which in the long run went to Miley Cyrus, as a teenager. “After I nonetheless lived in Tennessee and I was 14 on the time, so this might need been … 21 years prior to now, and it was a pair years sooner than that that they had strong Miley in it,” Hale recalled. “I take into accout the audition. It was a taped audition in Tennessee. It was the audition that made me want to be an actress. I don’t forget that vividly. It was very, very cool.”
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On Reside with Kelly and Mark, James Marsden revealed his failed audition for Saturday Night Reside. The current had a nationwide experience search, and Marsden auditioned collectively along with his peer from drama class. He outlined, “It wasn’t even one factor like, ‘Create an fascinating character,’ or irrespective of. It was like, ‘Do irrespective of silly issue you want to do.’ I don’t know why we chosen to do this, nonetheless we clucked like chickens and easily walked spherical each other.” The Golden Globe nominated actor didn’t get a callback, describing his rooster act as a “harmful various.” He then outlined it was a dream of his to be an SNL strong member, and he could be proper right down to host eventually.
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Austin Butler reveals he auditioned to be inside the 2012 Hunger Video video games movie, all through a BuzzFeed Celeb video the actor recalled his audition to play Peeta, “I don’t even suppose I acquired a callback for the character Peeta.”
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Chris Pine confirmed a story from The OC casting director that he misplaced out on the operate of Ryan Atwood as a consequence of his zits. “I had horrible pores and pores and skin as a teenager, after which after faculty, my pores and pores and skin started breaking out as soon as extra. I was going out for ‘The O.C.,’ which is a teenage melodrama. I can understand that they wanted to have pretty people doing pretty points, and harmful zits is simply not a a key [asset],” he talked about on the Fully pleased Sad Confused podcast. He moreover talked about he wasn’t thrilled the casting director knowledgeable the story in Welcome to the OC e-book, together with, “It’s no fulfilling having harmful pores and pores and skin… it was in all probability essentially the most traumatic components of my life, nonetheless it’s my story, man.”
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Cole Sprouse recalled his failed audition with twin brother Dylan to play Issue One and Issue Two for The Cat inside the Hat whereas speaking with Males’s Properly being. “We confirmed as a lot as this dance studio, and our mom had put us in these foolish Issue One and Issue Two outfits to attempt to get the gig, and it was horrible,” he talked about, together with the one path that that they had was to go “insane.” He continued, “You inform two 7-year-olds to go wild, they normally’ll go wild, we broke a mirror on considered one of many partitions of the dance studio after which someway ended up in a full-on fistfight, utterly unprompted. Evidently, we didn’t get the half.”
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Robert Downey Jr. reveals he pitched himself to play Scarecrow in Batman Begins. All through a Q&A for an Oppenheimer screener, the actor opened up, “I’m pretty optimistic that I heard like, ‘There’s this operate, Scarecrow,’ and I was like, ‘psh, I’m Scarecrow,’” he continued, “I take into accout meeting for tea, and I was like, ‘He doesn’t appear to be he’s really leaning in on this interview.’ And he was properly mannered and all that, nonetheless I indicate, you acknowledge, it’s possible you’ll inform when any person is form of like, ‘It’s not gonna go your method.’”
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Jamie Campbell Bower reveals how he failed his audition for Harry Potter, all through an episode of the Fully pleased Sad Confused podcast he opened up, “They bought right here to my faculty to seek for potential Potters or potential strong members and pulled me out of a bunch of people. So I went to go to the audition.” He continued, “I went to go meet Chris Columbus [director] in London for the first Harry Potter, they normally’d requested us to rearrange a joke. I had merely heard this joke a few fairy, like the reason why the fairy sits on prime of the Christmas tree. It’s a extraordinarily dirty joke because of it’s a Christmas tree up somebody’s bottom, and I knowledgeable this joke inside the audition. I was like, ‘Correctly, f-cked that up. Time to maneuver on.”
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Josh Peck revealed he auditioned to play Edward Cullen inside the Twilight motion pictures. On an episode of his Good Guys podcast, he claimed, “I take into accout it’s like 2006-7, they’re like, ‘Audition for this movie Twilight, it is primarily based on a e-book, it might be good,” He added, “I ship in my tape… [for] Edward. A month later, I’m with my supervisor, he goes, ‘It’s proper right down to you and three guys. You’re shut.’ I’m like, ‘Truly?’ I hadn’t even had a tummy tuck however, I’m like there isn’t any method, he’s acquired to be so shirtless. It’s not going to happen.” The operate, in reality, went to Robert Pattinson.
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Aubrey Plaza says she “blew it” when she auditioned for Deadpool 2 operate. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, she remembers, “I’d merely come off a plane and I imagine I was capturing Legion on the time, I was really not in zone because of auditioning — it’s a should to be in an auditioning zone and I was in a bit zone. That one harm. Me and Ryan Reynolds, what might go incorrect? We might be so good collectively, nonetheless [I] blew it.”
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The casting director for American Horror Story reveals Margot Robbie auditioned for the second season of the current, “Asylum.” In an interview with Backstage the director opened up, revealing: “Margot has a great deal of ‘it’ elements, That’s the strong issue for casting directors who aren’t inside the room [anymore] with actors. Margot is likely to be one in all my favorite auditions of all time, and it was correct sooner than she broke out. She was such a star. It was crazy, her star attraction when she walked inside the room. Even supposing she didn’t get that operate, that was a sort of points as a casting director the place you go: It’s a star, what can we do collectively together with her? Immediately, though, she was out of our realm of probability of hiring. Nevertheless that’s really the fulfilling part of casting, is seeing the people whose careers are merely rising.”
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Adam Brody revealed on the Merely For Choice podcast that he auditioned for the operate of Peter Quill/Star-Lord inside the 2014 Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy. “I wanted that one,” he talked about. Whereas the half in the long run went to Chris Pratt, Brody solely had good points to say about Pratt’s casting, calling the actor a “greater match” for the MCU character. “He’s better, stronger, nonetheless tonally, I really dug it,” Brody talked about.
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Jennifer Lawrence revealed she auditioned to be inside the Twilight assortment whereas exhibiting on The Rewatchables. The Hunger Video video games actress shared, “I auditioned for Twilight, they turned me down immediately. I didn’t even get a callback, nonetheless my life would have been utterly completely completely different.” However, she talked about how she dealt together with her career could be very like her post-Hunger Video video games initiatives, saying, “I’ve to churn out movement footage in between so that I’m not solely recognized for this franchise. I was nonetheless in a franchise, so I was nonetheless attempting to counteract the franchise-ness, and I would nonetheless be doing that if I was in Twilight.”
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Dove Cameron has revealed she auditioned for the operate of Glinda inside the upcoming “Wicked” movie. Whereas speaking to TheWrap, the 27-year-old shared, “I undoubtedly went out for it. I do know that for everybody who did exit for it, it was a very prolonged course of. It was considered one of many longer processes I’ve been a part of.” Although Ariana Grande was in the long run strong as Glinda, Cameron talked about she’s “really, really excited” to see the film and thinks Grande is “gonna kill it.”
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Rosie Perez remembers her failed audition for the operate of ‘Trinity’ in The Matrix, which in the long run went to Carrie-Ann Moss. In an interview with Choice the star opened up saying: “I was horrible. As I was strolling out, I was like, ‘I do know I didn’t get the job. I really sucked,’ and the Wachowskis had been like, ‘No,’ and the casting director was attempting to not snigger,” she continued, “After which lastly I checked out her and I’m going, ‘I really sucked,’ and she or he merely burst out laughing. All of us had been laughing. I merely gave the Wachowskis a hug and I discussed, ‘Correctly, good luck with this.’”
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Patricia Arquette knowledgeable Choice she bombed an audition for Jerry Maguire. “Everyone was saying, ‘Oh, that’s solely a formality, you might be gonna be taught with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ nonetheless that’s your half, you purchased it,’ and I blew it,” she recalled. Renee Zellweger landed the operate in its place, with Patricia together with, “I actually suppose she was greater for it, and she or he was good.”
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Chase Stokes opens up about his failed audition for Steve Harrington in Stranger Points. In an interview with Entry Hollywood the Outer Banks star revealed: “I forgot the entire traces and utterly effed up, I drove eight hours from Atlanta once more to Orlando regretting every second of my life on that.”
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Penn Badgley remembers auditioning for Aaron Paul’s half in Breaking Unhealthy, referring to it as “the one which acquired away,” all through an interview with Buzzfeed, the actor revealed: “One I acquired shut on was Breaking Unhealthy, it was between me and Aaron Paul, we examined. And actually, that was the perfect television script I would be taught at the moment. That was the one which acquired away.”
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In a modern interview with Sirius XM, Noah Centineo opens up about just a few of the failed auditions he’s had thus far. The Fosters alum talked about he auditioned for the operate of Austin in Disney’s Austin and Ally, which was in the long run given to Ross Lynch. Centineo moreover revealed he went for the lead operate in The Maze Runner, which was given to Dylan O’Brien, together with dropping quite a lot of roles in Netflix assortment 13 Causes Why and Teen Wolf. The actor goes on to reveal how he handles the rejection, saying: “It’s in all probability not an precise, I don’t really take it as rejection. I imagine that’s the inaccurate method to think about it. I imagine the suitable method to think about it’s I’m auditioning for a activity. I’m bringing the whole thing I presumably can to it. Within the occasion that they’re not okay with that, that’s optimistic.”
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Joe Jonas revealed he auditioned for The Very good Spider-Man. “I take into accout years prior to now I was up for Spider-Man and I was so, so excited and it was the 12 months Andrew Garfield acquired it. Clearly, he was the suitable one. I don’t forget that was an unlimited issue on the time, going once more for callbacks and the director [Marc Webb] was a music video director. So I was like, ‘I acquired an in proper right here.’”
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Taylor Swift appeared once more on her failed audition for Les Misérables whereas exhibiting on The Graham Norton Current. “Primarily, I was up for two roles. I had the look of Cosette and the fluctuate, vocally, of Eponine. So it was established I was there for time nonetheless not for a really very long time—I wasn’t going to get the operate,” she talked about, together with that she was requested to do a show display verify with Eddie Redmayne anyway. “After I acquired there they put me in full nineteenth Century avenue urchin costume and knowledgeable me that they had been going to paint my enamel brown and I was like, ‘You’re going to do this after I meet Eddie Redmayne correct?’ Nevertheless no, they made me appear as if dying and it grew to turn out to be a nightmare. After I met Eddie I didn’t open my mouth to speak!”
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Hugh Jackman revealed he misplaced out on a activity in Miss Congeniality whereas speaking with Choice. Of a learning reverse Sandra Bullock, he recalled pondering, “Holy s—! She’s great! And so quick and fast. I’m not even vaguely in management proper right here.” He added, “I was pedaling as fast as I’ll, nonetheless I didn’t know the script successfully enough. I was impressed that she was in there. I didn’t rely on her to be in there.” He misplaced the operate to Benjamin Bratt, together with, “That’s humiliating, when your agent says, ‘I don’t want you to get this job, nonetheless merely go get it.’ And then you definately undoubtedly don’t get it.”
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Dylan McDermott reveals he auditioned for the operate of Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride, in an interview with Sirius XM McDermott admits, “I was up for the Mandy Patinkin operate. It was very shut. I was youthful… nonetheless that audition opened the doorways to many various points. I imagine I acquired inside the line of hearth attributable to it, nonetheless the entire sudden merely I was off of it, nonetheless I was, set off it was the similar casting directors, uh, that opened a great deal of doorways, nonetheless I really appreciated that movie and I, I had this whole, full blown character in a position to go, nonetheless Mandy was implausible in it, nonetheless I imagine that that form of sticks in me someplace.”
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Zoey Deutch opens up about how she auditioned to play Katniss Everdeen inside the Hunger Video video games franchise, in an episode of Lights Digital digicam Barstool the actress revealed, “I screen-tested for Katniss, nonetheless knew I didn’t get it, because of inside the show display verify, he was like, ‘Why don’t you be taught this completely different half?’ Nevertheless, yeah, that one was considerably painful.”
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Lena Dunham opens up about her failed audition for Utilizing In Vehicles With Boys, in an interview with SiriusXM she revealed, “The one issue I’ll say is I understand why I didn’t get the operate because of she requested all of the youthful actors to say our title, our peak, the place we had been from and smile. And I discussed, ‘I’m Lena. I’m from New York. And I don’t smile on command.’ by which Penny Marshall responded, ‘It’s known as showing, honey.’” Dunham continued, “The issue is, it’s like, she was correct, like, would you lease an actor who was like, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t smile on command’?”
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Chace Crawford talked about he was “terribly devastated” after not getting operate of Jason Avenue in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ Crawford mentioned that he and his then-roommate Taylor Kitsch every auditioned to be on the gathering — and whereas Taylor landed the operate of Tim Riggins, Scott Porter wound up getting strong as Jason.
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Andrew Garfield knowledgeable Choice he auditioned for the Prince Caspian operate inside the Chronicles of Narnia motion pictures and believes it bought right here proper right down to him and Ben Barnes, who landed the half. After asking his agent why he didn’t get it, she knowledgeable him, “It’s because of they don’t suppose you’re handsome enough, Andrew.” He added, “Ben Barnes is a very handsome, proficient man. So on reflection, I’m not unhappy with the selection and I imagine he did a beautiful job.”
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Gabrielle Union tells Corden a few failed audition for “The Matrix.” “Everyone and their mother was auditioning for ‘The Matrix’. I went to audition, to me, I needed to essentially really feel like primarily essentially the most extremely efficient, gorgeous and great woman on the planet, so in reality, I wanted to channel Janet Jackson,” she talked about. “I really uncover the exact outfit from her album cowl. I draw inside the rattling mole. I completely devoted.” “I play Janet the whole time, prepared for the audition, in there early. No one’s going to stop me… in walks Janet Jackson,” she recalled, “I’m pretty optimistic there was a restraining order of varieties.”
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Matt Damon revealed he auditioned twice to play Robin on the “Fully pleased Sad Confused” podcast. First, he audition to play Batman’s sidekick for the distinctive 1989 Tim Burton film, nonetheless the operate was in the long run decrease from the script. He later auditioned for 1993’s “Batman Perpetually.” Chris O’Donnell already had the half, nonetheless that they had been haggling over money,” he exaplined. “The studio was flexing, primarily, by flying in two completely different people to show display verify. They wanted Chris, nonetheless they solely wanted him for a price.” O’Donnell landed the operate.
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Salma Hayek and Jada Pinkett Smith had been every up for the operate of Trinity in “The Matrix.” “We had been considered one of many 4 finalists for ‘The Matrix,’” talked about Hayek on “Crimson Desk Focus on.” “We had jumped by the use of many hurdles and show display testing and plenty of auditions, they normally launched these stunt coordinators from Asia, and it was the bodily verify.” “Now I’m versatile. I’m agile, nonetheless I’m lazy,” the she added. “I under no circumstances really went to the well being membership they normally talked about to me, ‘It’s a should to run,’ I’m going, ‘To the place?’ ‘Spherical, it’s a should to run spherical…’ They under no circumstances known as me as soon as extra after that day.” Carrie-Anne Moss in the long run acquired the half.
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All through a modern episode of the “Welcome to the OC, Bitches!” podcast, casting director Patrick Rush revealed that Chris Pine was a finalist for the operate of Ryan Atwood. “We observed Chris Pine, he was really really really good nonetheless – that’s painful. On the time Chris Pine’s pores and pores and skin was really really harmful and that broke my coronary coronary heart because of I was a toddler with zits. I take into accout pondering he was so good,” Rush admitted.
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“One Tree Hill’s” Hilarie Burton revealed that her now-husband auditioned for the current years sooner than they met. On the “Drama Queens” podcast Burton talked about, ““After I met Jeff, he was like, ‘Oh, I auditioned for that current.’ I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ My husband, Jeffrey, auditioned for [Craig] Sheffer‘s half.” “He was like, ‘Yeah, you acknowledge, I favored the whole gritty storage man, that edgy issue,’” she recalled. “Had Jeff confirmed up in these tight jeans that Sheff was sporting, I might need undoubtedly had youngsters earlier!”
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Nicholas Hoult remembers the time he auditioned for “The Chronicles of Narnia. “One amongst my all-time worst [auditions] was undoubtedly Prince Caspian,” he knowledgeable EW. “They requested if I’ll do a Hispanic accent. I was like, ‘What would I base that on?’ That they had been like, ‘Have you ever ever seen Shrek? Puss in Boots.’ I was doing the scene, nonetheless in my head sooner than saying each line, I was attempting to do my impression, saying [in a Desperado voice] ‘I’m Prince Caspian!’ It was horrendous. It sounded additional like Borat.”
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Henry Cavill talked regarding the time he misplaced the operate of James Bond in “On line on line casino Royale” to Daniel Craig. “I most definitely might have prepared greater,” he knowledgeable “Males’s Properly being.” “I take into accout the director, Martin Campbell, saying, ‘Making an attempt considerably chubby there, Henry,’” Cavill recalled. “I didn’t know how one can observe or meals routine. And I’m glad Martin talked about one factor, because of I reply successfully to reality. It helps me get greater.”
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Chris Evans remembers botching his audition for “Gone Youngster Gone” after being starstruck by Ben Affleck. “I circled and it was [Ben], and for some trigger I instantly was nervous,” he knowledgeable “Backstage,” “I went in and shook his hand, and the very very first thing I discussed was ‘Hey, how ya doing — am I gonna be okay the place I parked?’” “From that second, I merely wanted to get the f— out of the room. I merely wanted to be anyplace nonetheless there,” Evans continued. “It was horrible, a complete disaster. So clearly, I didn’t get that job.”
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